Keiji Nishitani - The Self Overcoming Nihilism

THE

SELF~OVERCOMING

OF NIHILISM

The Self-Overcoming

NISHITANI Keiji ·.

Translated by Graham Parkes with Setsuko Aihara

at N I HILISM

"As a past reader of Nishitani in both"'the original J~panese and English translation, I find this manuscript to be the most accessible and clearly written of any book-length work I have read by him. It shows Nishitani as a vital and vigorous thinker, and serves as an introduction to his widely acclaimed Religion and Nothingness. "The summaries of the relation to nihilism of Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Feuerbach, and Stirner, a nearly forgotten figure in intellectual history, are all perspicacious. Even the chapters on Nietzsche, about whom volume~ .t ft; 'written these days, provide new insights. The brief section on the·problem of nihilism for Japan is unprecedented in the English literature, and_the sketches on karma and historicity whet the appetite for the mor.e. ,extensive and difficult expositions in Religion and Nothingness. "It will be mandatory reading for an understanding of both Nishi~ · tani's thought and the problem of nihilism. Scholars and other persons interested in nihilism, in Nietzsche, and/or in contemporary Buddhist or Japanese philosophy, will greatly profit from a study of this book."

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-John C. Maraldo, Department of Philosophy, University of North Florida

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